Cover Graphics that don't work

LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
edited July 2015 in Strut Central
I get a kick out of cover graphics that don't fit the musical style.

2 examples that I have recently stumbled accross


Stephen Stills with 80s hard rock hair band graphics. (I am never going to listen to this, maybe it does fit the music, Jimmy Page plays on a song.)


Oldies collection with Grateful Dead inspired graphics. (Motown classics, Andy Williams, Cream and Bob Dylan all in one collection.)

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  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,789 Posts

  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts



  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Thanks Mr M. I never saw that before. Louis Belson 1954.
    Could be free jazz from the 70s.

  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    yeah, i came across his S/T norgan lp this weekend and saw that when pricing it.
    I then went down a great rabbit hole this weekend checking David Stone Martin covers
    http://www.birkajazz.com/archive/stonemartin.htm



  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    DSM is great. Love his stuff.
    His stuff for Folkways/Asch/Disc sometimes gets overlooked.

    The one above does not look like his work.

  • Pretty great reggae LP that hijacks a surrealist painting by Rene Magrite.



  • toby.dtoby.d 254 Posts
    I got Apple Music and it replaces a load of original covers with horrible reissue or comp covers, will post a few tomorrow but anyone else had that?

  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,169 Posts
    This cover works on so many levels, but it doesn't really reflect the type of music on it (which is great btw).



    So does that mean that this cover works more?


  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Sylvia's labels did a lot of weak covers.
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